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As the Swan of Avon celebrates his birthday on Sunday, the actor pays tribute to a ‘miraculous’ book that rescued plays such as The Tempest and Macbeth from oblivion
Test your knowledge of the Bard with this quiz as his birthday draws near
Six new books, celebrating the quatercentenary of the First Folio, range from the intensely personal to the boldly political
Paper Mill Playhouse has announced the cast and creative team for Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express by Ken Ludwig, directed by Casey Hushion. See performance dates and learn how to purchase tickets!
“Conscience doth make cowards of us all,” Hamlet observes. He’s right, of course, but so does wokeness. And wokeness goes one better, making virtue-signaling weenies of us all. It certainly has for D.C.’s Folger Shakespeare Library, which runs the online game Prattle. Prattle is like Wordle for Shakespeare buffs. You guess the letters to eventually discover the answer word, which has to appear in Shakespeare’s works.